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I'm increasingly alarmed at how much other world leaders are willing to tell the emperor he's naked.Biden gets an earful in the Oval from Mexican President López Obrador
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President Biden listens to remarks from Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
In his long career as a U.S. senator, Joe Biden has sat through his share of lengthy speeches.
But sitting in the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Biden seemed a bit out of practice. During a meeting with Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Biden at turns smirked, grimaced, fidgeted, and took notes as the Mexican president launched into remarks that went on for more than half an hour.
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pulls out his remarks in the Oval Office.
Some 20 minutes into his remarks, López Obrador said he was getting ready to conclude. Biden broke into a big grin and laughed.
Speaking through an interpreter, the populist leader touched on everything from Franklin D. Roosevelt's migrant policies, to the relative costs of American and Mexican gasoline, to lithium mining, and the need for broader, more predictable migration policies.
Biden made a point to tell his counterpart that he agreed with many of López Obrador's broad points, that "our nations share close ties, family, and friendship." Biden said policy differences between the two were often exaggerated by "overhyped headlines."
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President Biden's prepared remarks lasted about 10 minutes.
Biden also touted cooperation between the two nations on targeting drugs — specifically fentanyl — as well as on tackling the root causes that lead people to migrate from Central and South America to Mexico and the United States
But López Obrador's visit to the White House came immediately on the heels of the Mexican president's boycott of the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles last month. López Obrador refused to attend the U.S.-hosted conference because the Biden administration did not invite authoritarian governments of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. That decision – and the White House's frantic scramble to reverse it – cast a shadow over much of the summit.
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President Biden speaks during his meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador.
And while not overtly hostile, some of López Obrador's comments to Biden touched on politically embarrassing topics, like the high price of gasoline in the United States.
"While we're waiting for prices or gasoline to go down in the United States," López Obrador said at one point, "we have decided that it was necessary for us to allow Americans who live close to the border ... to go and get their gasoline on the Mexican side at lower prices."
López Obrador's administration recently began subsidizing gasoline prices.
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President Biden listens as Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador delivers lengthy remarks in the Oval Office.
The Mexican president ended his remarks with a call for more, and more formalized, migration policies. "It is indispensable for us to regularize and give certainty to migrants that for years have lived and worked in a very honest manner," he said.
"I know that your adversaries the conservatives are going to be screaming all over the place," López Obrador added, deploying phrasing he often uses to describe critics of his administration. "Even to the heaven they're going to be yelling."
Indeed, Republicans have seized on high numbers of migrants trying to cross the U.S. border as they criticize Biden's policies.
"We need to work closer together," Biden said after López Obrador concluded. "The thrust of what you're saying, I agree with."
The two leaders continued meeting behind closed doors after their 45 minutes in front of reporters.
More diplomacy and meetings await Biden later this week: Late Tuesday, he leaves for a trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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The remarks of Mexico's President Andres Manuel López Obrador went on for some time.
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Dude, don't arbitrarily change the title of a longrunning thread. What the hell?Yes, I'm secretly on the payroll of the vast and totally consistent Biden machine lmao
I'm just autistic about thread titles being accurate and realized I had the power to change it now
Plz everyone stuff this thread with how much of a corrupt snake Biden is and how the media ignored all of this 2 years ago because Orange Man is indisputably Bad
Fuck I could give a many number of things that pissed me off about Trump and I voted for him twice.I've had multiple Trump derangement addicts admit to me they genuinely could not think of a reason they they hated Trump so fiercely other than the news telling them too and they obeyed.
They looked pretty horrified when they came to that realization too.
It was either him or Hillary. Him or Biden.Fuck I could give a many number of things that pissed me off about Trump and I voted for him twice.
MOD FIGHT!Dude, don't arbitrarily change the title of a longrunning thread. What the hell?
If this happens, I hope we get something like meatball-tier memes again. They were hilariously bad.One of the Democrats I figure is running, again, is Mike Bloomberg. If the Democrat party is truly set on schism, and I think it is at this point, Bloomberg will fight to lead the Neo-Liberal Corporatist wing of the Party.
He has the connections, he has a campaign apparatus that could snap back in place quickly, he has a not insignificant amount of money. The Bezos types should love him, and there is a chunk of the party that eyes the radicals with growing suspicion and dismay.
The real kicker for all this though is that he was delusional enough the last time around to think he had a shot. I can totally see him thinking that 2024 is totally his for the taking.
Meh, I actually agree with the thread name change. The gamut of topics this thread (and its predecessor) tackles, despite being a thread nominally about Brandon, do run pretty wide. Plus, this prevents the risk of another "TOO OFF-TOPIC, SHUT IT DOWN".Dude, don't arbitrarily change the title of a longrunning thread. What the hell?
What we really need to do is make a separate US Politics General Thread. I like this thread, because I like the parade of fuckups that is the Biden administration. and I don't like it being revamped into something it shouldn't be.Meh, I actually agree with the thread name change. The gamut of topics this thread (and its predecessor) tackles, despite being a thread nominally about Brandon, do run pretty wide. Plus, this prevents the risk of another "TOO OFF-TOPIC, SHUT IT DOWN".
What we really need to do is make a separate US Politics General Thread. I like this thread, because I like the parade of fuckups that is the Biden administration. and I don't like it being revamped into something it shouldn't be.
I just like shitposting with frens for like a thousand pages about absolutely nothingThat's a perfectly acceptable compromise to me. Let this stay Biden and start a US Politics General.... (even though I hate fucking megathreads on avg just due to how news gets lost in them)
So are actual Americans fucked when it comes to the job market? Seems like no matter what the position is, non-americans have taken overI know how to get popular with mexicans again! I'll just import a shitload of other Mexicans to compete for jobs
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Biden Brags About Importing 'Record' Foreign Workers to Compete Against Americans for Jobs
President Joe Biden is bragging about the "record" number of foreign visa workers his administration has brought to the U.S.www.breitbart.com
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Biden Brags About Importing ‘Record’ Foreign Workers to Compete Against Americans for Jobs
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President Joe Biden is bragging about the “record” number of foreign visa workers his administration has brought to the United States to compete for working and middle class jobs against unemployed Americans.
During a press conference with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Biden bragged that his Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has created a steady flow to the U.S. of foreign workers on agricultural H-2A and nonagricultural H-2B visas.
“Last year, my administration set a record — we issued more than 300,000 H-2 visas for Mexican workers,” Biden said. “We also reached a five-year high in the visas we issued to Central Americans, and we’re on pace to double this in … this fiscal year for Central America.”
Biden’s inflating the U.S. labor market with millions of foreign workers comes as millions of working-age Americans remain on the labor market sidelines.
“There are approximately 11.5 million job openings in the United States right now, and 14.73 million employable Americans,” a study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) notes. “This means that there are 3.23 million more workers in the country than open jobs.”
Similarly, the Center for Immigration Studies finds that the number of native-born Americans who are now out of the labor force has increased in all 50 states tremendously in the last two decades. This is particularly true of working class Americans who are the most likely to compete against foreign workers for U.S. jobs.
From 2000 to 2022, the share of non-college-educated Americans in the labor force declined in every state, and in 24 of those states, the decline was seven or more percentage points. The decline was nearly five percent on average for non-college-educated Americans in their “prime working age” during this 22-year period.
Annually, the U.S. gives out green cards to about 1.2 million foreign nationals and another 1.5 million temporary work visas. This is in addition to the millions of illegal aliens who are added to the U.S. population every year.
If a separate US Politics General Thread is created, can I tag lefties in there? I just like to watch the trashfire.What we really need to do is make a separate US Politics General Thread. I like this thread, because I like the parade of fuckups that is the Biden administration. and I don't like it being revamped into something it shouldn't be.
The trades are still experiencing a massive shortage, I think. And a lot of specialized work can't be trusted with uneducated scabs.So are actual Americans fucked when it comes to the job market? Seems like no matter what the position is, non-americans have taken over
That's just off the top of my head
- Mexicans - Manual Labor
- Indians (street shitters) - Computer/Tech industry
- That one time Somalian refugees were getting hired to replace the nurses/doctors they fired
I don't know what it's like in every field, but an American born software engineer is generally more multidisciplinary than an engineer in Bangalore, though this also leads to a higher cost to employ.So are actual Americans fucked when it comes to the job market? Seems like no matter what the position is, non-americans have taken over
That's just off the top of my head
- Mexicans - Manual Labor
- Indians (street shitters) - Computer/Tech industry
- That one time Somalian refugees were getting hired to replace the nurses/doctors they fired
One of the main reasons why you should hate journos. The way they brainwash, control, and manipulate the population is one of the most disgusting things about our society.I've had multiple Trump derangement addicts admit to me they genuinely could not think of a reason they they hated Trump so fiercely other than the news telling them too and they obeyed.
They looked pretty horrified when they came to that realization too.